umb

See also: UMB and umb-

Translingual

Symbol

umb

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Umbundu.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

Preposition

umb

1. Alternative form of umbe

Anagrams

• MBU, bum

Albanian

Alternative forms

• um, hum, humb — Gheg, dialectal

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibilities include:

1. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from the nominative of Latin vōmis, vōmeris (“ploughshare”), though the phonetical evolution is not regular.
2. Borrowed from Vulgar Latin, from Latin humus (“earth, soil”), though it is difficult to reconcile semantically.

In both cases, the final /b/ would be unetymological.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈumb/
• Rhymes: -umb

Noun

umb m (plural umbe, definite umbi, definite plural umbet)

1. small ploughshare on a wooden plough

   Synonym: plor

Declension

Declension of umb

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	umb	umbe	umbi	umbet
accusative			umbin
dative	umbi	umbeve	umbit	umbevet
ablative		umbesh

Further reading

• “umb,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2088a
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “um”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 540a
• Bardhi, F. (1635) Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 6: “aratrum — umbi, plori”

Old Norse

Preposition

umb

1. Alternative form of um

References

• “umb”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press